Maxime Agez, Richard Wood, Manuele Margni, Anders H. Strømman, Réjean Samson et Guillaume Majeau-Bettez
Article de revue (2020)
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Abstract
Process‐based Life Cycle Assessments (PLCA) rely on detailed descriptions of extensive value chains and their associated exchanges with the environment, but major data gaps limit the completeness of these system descriptions and lead to truncations in inventories and underestimations of impacts. Hybrid Life Cycle Assessments (HLCA) aim to combine the strength of PLCA and Environmentally Extended Input Output (EEIO) analysis to obtain more specific and complete system descriptions. Currently, however, most HLCAs only remediate truncation of processes that are specific to each case study (foreground processes), and these processes are then linked to (truncated) generic background processes from a non‐hybridized PLCA database. A hybrid PLCA‐EEIO database is therefore required to completely solve the truncation problems of PLCA and thus obtain a comprehensive product system coverage. This paper describes the construction of such a database using pyLCAIO, a novel framework and open‐source software enabling the streamlined hybridization of entire PLCA and EEIO databases. We applied this framework to the PLCA database Ecoinvent3.5 and the multiregional EEIO database EXIOBASE 3. Thanks to the correction for truncation in this new hybrid database, the median and average life cycle global warming potential (GWP) of its processes increased by 7% and 14%, respectively. These corrections only reflect the truncations that could be readily identified and estimated in a semi‐automated manner; and we anticipate that further database integration should lead to higher levels of correction in the future.
Mots clés
Database; Environmentally extended input output (EEIO) analysis; Hybrid life‐cycle assessment; Process‐based life cycle assessments (PLCA); Software; Truncation error
Sujet(s): |
1500 Génie de l'environnement > 1500 Génie de l'environnement 1600 Génie industriel > 1600 Génie industriel 1600 Génie industriel > 1602 Systèmes d'information de gestion |
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Département: |
Département de génie chimique Département de mathématiques et de génie industriel |
Centre de recherche: | CIRAIG - Centre international de référence sur le cycle de vie des produits, procédés et services |
Organismes subventionnaires: | International Chair in Life Cycle Assessment |
URL de PolyPublie: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/5487/ |
Titre de la revue: | Journal of Industrial Ecology (vol. 24, no 4) |
Maison d'édition: | Wiley |
DOI: | 10.1111/jiec.12979 |
URL officielle: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12979 |
Date du dépôt: | 13 nov. 2020 11:49 |
Dernière modification: | 25 sept. 2024 23:29 |
Citer en APA 7: | Agez, M., Wood, R., Margni, M., Strømman, A. H., Samson, R., & Majeau-Bettez, G. (2020). Hybridization of complete PLCA and MRIO databases for a comprehensive product system coverage. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24(4), 774-790. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12979 |
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